Published by The San Diego Union-Tribune SAN DIEGO — With victims and their families watching in a crowded San Diego courtroom, the gunman who opened fire at a Poway synagogue in 2019, killing one worshipper and injuring three others, was sentenced Thursday to life in prison without parole. It was the expected sentence for John
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San Diego County
SANTA CRUZ, California (Press Release) – Seventy-four religious, civil rights and education organizations today urged Governor Gavin Newsom to veto AB 101, a bill mandating an ethnic studies high school graduation requirement. The California legislature recently voted to advance AB 101, and the bill is now on the desk of the Governor, who has until Oct. 10 to
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Science, Medicine, & Education, USA
By Bruce S. Ticker PHILADELPHIA — “Peace be upon you.” Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas uttered these hospitable words to conclude a hostile speech against his usual suspect, namely Israel, in a pre-recorded speech to the United Nations General Assembly. If Abbas means what he says, which we can rarely count on, Israel and the Palestinians
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Bruce Ticker, International, Middle East
This memoir combines journal entries of Zionist fundraiser Irma Ehrlich with the research and narrative of her granddaughter, Catherine Ehrlich, to tell the story of a strong-willed woman who migrated to England, and later the United States, with her son, Paul, from Vienna, following the Anschluss that merged Nazi Germany and Austria. [Donald H. Harrison]
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. Harrison, International, Jewish History, Middle East, USA
By Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel — A birthday and a wedding anniversary (55 years!) impelled us to celebrate the double occasion with a weekend of pampering and feasting at one of the hotels situated on the shore of the Dead Sea. Upon checking in at the hotel we were required to show proof that
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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, Travel and Food
By Rafael Medoff Republished from the Jewish Journal of Los Angeles WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Franklin D. Roosevelt sent a secret plea to Adolf Hitler in the summer of 1936, according to newly-uncovered documents. It wasn’t a plea to curtail Germany’s military buildup. It wasn’t a plea to Hitler to stop intervening on behalf of
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International, Jewish History, USA
Published by DPA Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid arrived on Thursday in Bahrain, marking the first official visit by an Israeli minister since the two countries established ties last year. The Israeli official was welcomed by his Bahraini counterpart Abdullatif al-Zayani. “We arrived in Bahrain. Very proud to repre sent Israel on the first official
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Middle East
Published by The San Diego Union-Tribune Warehouses and other industrial facilities are popping up in Otay Mesa, a community in the southern section of San Diego on the border with Mexico, at a staggering pace — most notably in the form of an enormous new 3.4 million-square-foot Amazon distribution center. The expansion is being driven
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San Diego County
By Aviva Angel SAN DIEGO — The myth of the “melting pot” has shaped public education over the decades. It was the prevailing theory as early as last century, and it shaped educational policy at a time when outward racism and bigotry was accepted and touted amongst American politicians and elite. The idea behind melting
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Science, Medicine, & Education
his entirely poetic Haftorah by Isaiah II, referenced c. 540 BCE, is set in Judea’s Babylonian exile. It anticipates release by the coming conqueror of Babylon, Cyrus of Persia. I remind that Isaiah II, like all of the Book of Isaiah, represents a composite of writers, who collectively are a Master ancient Hebrew ‘poet’. [Irv Jacobs, M.D.]
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Irv Jacobs, MD, Jewish Religion
Published by Miami Herald MIAMI — Before FBI agents and Fort Lauderdale police arrested Paul Miller at his home in March, the U.S. Justice Department says, he made clear he would back starting “a race-based civil war in the United States.” The white supremacist won’t be starting anything soon other than prison jobs and his
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USA
Published by BANG Showbiz English Mila Kunis and Ashton Kutcher have developed a “tag team” system to balance their personal lives and their careers. The 38-year-old actress – who has Wyatt, six, and Dimitri, five, with the Hollywood star – has revealed how the loved-up couple have managed to balance their lives since becoming parents.
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Jewish Celebrities
Intrigue, maneuvering, scheming, plotting, and murder highlight the years from Herod’s reign to the Jewish rebellion against Rome, beginning in 66. Herod, the Great, acting more like the King of the Jews than a Jewish king, ascended to the throne in 37 BCE. His rule lasted forty-one years. [Fred Reiss, Ed.D]
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Fred Reiss, EdD, International, Jewish History, Middle East
The first time my parents took me on a trip with them I was eight years old and living in Chicago. We were going to Mexico, where I would see, hear, and feel the ocean for the first time (for those that know me, the ocean is one of my favorite temporal experiences in life). But my first memory of this trip — and every trip, henceforth — was sitting before we left. [Danielle Levsky]
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International, Lifestyles